proceed against somebody

The Commission also needed legal advice whether to proceed against all seven councils together, or one at a time.

And yet when I proceed against my father, they are angry with me.

"Even the attorney general of Iraq said there was no basis for proceeding against him."

Tarzan was quite at a loss as to how to proceed against her.

They didn't proceed against her because it was politically impossible right then.

And then I discover that a further conspiracy has been proceeding against me.

Then, if the district attorney proceeds against me, it'll look like spite work.

All we could do was proceed directly against the rancher.

He asked the judge "to consider whether, for reasons of his dangerously poor health, this case should proceed against him at all."

However, it is possible to proceed against them, even without a judicial process or final proof.